MS NOW Columnist Philip Bump says the powerful Trump cult may accomplish something where countless others failed: reign in gun culture and the NRA. “As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump offered one particular promise repeatedly: He, not his Democratic opponents, would be a champion of gun rights,” said Bump. You can’t walk in with guns,” Trump said of Pretti’s legally-concealed weapon as he observed federal agents.“If a Democrat had said it, woe unto them. But social media on Thursday was filled with Republican commenters saying Pretti essentially “had it coming,” and with mixed pushback from fellow MAGA conservatives. But now a putatively conservative president suggests that gun rights don’t extend to his political opponents,” said Bump.